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“Shootout” On Vulture Mine Road

Wickenburg Sun
3/28/2007
Art Pulis
Sun Business Advocate
A unique form of shootout was recently staged on Vulture Mine Road just south of the Vulture Mine. This was not a shootout with guns, but rather a shootout between law enforcement officers with radar and laser guns and drivers with radar and laser detectors and shifters.
Wickenburg businessman Roy Reyer, better known as Radar Roy, hosted a well-attended and important testing session for the radar detector industry. Various makes and models of radar detectors and laser shifting devices were matched against two trained and certified law enforcement officers who operated their equipment according to normal procedure. The volunteers in cars were running up and down the road trying either to detect the police or defeat their devices.
Included in the participants were executives form the radar and laser detection manufactures who were anxious to see how their latest technology worked in a real-world field test.
“We are here strictly as observers,” said Beltronics National Sales Manager Evertt Morss. “There are several tests around the country, but Roy runs one of the best and that’s why we come to see how our equipment performs.”
Also included among the testers were “The Guys of Lidar”, participants from around the country and Canada. In the group there were two individuals from Serbia (misprint was Croatia), and one from Scotland. According to Reyer, the interest in radar and laser devices is keen in Europe, and they are interested in testing.
“One reason our company is one of the largest retailers of radar and laser detection devices is that we understand our products and how they serve the consumer,” said Reyer. “I believe that they only way to advise the consumer is to understand how the devices work in the field under real conditions.”
“We have been here for three days running up and down the road testing in all conditions,” continued Reyer. “We use the straight stretches, but in this location we can easily run in the curves or the hills to determine sensitivity and effectiveness.”

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RMR Radio Ads

Looks like we may be getting relief from Mike Churchman’s radio ads that have been playing on the airwaves for his Phasor radar jammer.
On March 9, 2007 Michael Carowitz confirmed in a letter to US Senator Kay Hutchingson that his office has been following through with this issue along with citing several dealers of the RMR products and issuing a Notice of Liability on Rocky Mountain Radar.
Today I contacted the advertising department at XM radio and although they couldn’t confirm that they have pulled Mike’s ads, they did confirm that there was a memorandum floating around their office saying as such.
We will follow though with this and post any new information once it becomes available.

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Q3 Innovations

With the recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission, Attowave, the manufacture of Rocky Mountain Radar detectors has been in a tailspin. Not only are they in danger of losing RMR as their last major account in the US, they also lost PNI last year when they pulled out of the radar detector industry.
Q3 Innovations based in Iowa to the rescue. They have purchased the remaining inventory from PNI Sensoro and are also working on developing a new line up that they plan on offering later this year with Attowave as the manufacture.
PNI hit it big last year when Costco began carrying their Traveler Series radar detectors as an exclusive in their stores. However this win was not enough to keep their company solvent in the competitive radar detector industry.
Hopefully Q3 can do with PNI could not and offer a new exciting radar detector line up for the second half of 2007.

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Guys of Lidar

On March 9th through March 11th, Radarbusters hosted the Guys of Lidar (GoL) “Radar Detector and Laser Jamming Test” in Wickenburg Arizona.
The GoL team is made up of radar detector and laser jammer enthusiasts from across the US and Canada and we paid for their transportation costs to come out to our testing course to test all the latest speed countermeasure equipment.
We also had representatives from Beltronics, Laser Interceptor whom made the trip from Croatia, and Cheetah that made the trip from Scotland.
The GoL members methodology involves setting up “worst case scenarios” to test the effectiveness of the speed counter measure equipment. We also had two police officers whom were both certified in radar and laser enforcement, whom the GoL consulted with during the setting up of these exercises.
During the first couple days we experienced a “weird” Ka radar signal that basically flooded our original testing area, so at the morning briefing the GoL identified an alternate location that their testing site was moved to.
The highlight of the event for me is when they outfitted my 45’ Renegade RV with a prototype of the Laser Interceptor. Wagers were taken at punch through distances for the first run and no one bet on “Jam to Gun”, which it did!
I commend the GoL for their high level of professionalism and dedication. They endured my cooking, one hungry rattler and the hot Arizona sun to provide a very comprehensive radar detector and laser jamming test.

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RMR Dealers Cited for Illegal Products

The Federal Communications Commission has followed through with its first round of citations against dealers who sell the RMR C450 the RMR-S201.
On 1/31/2207 they cited:
RadarJammers.com
The Twister Group: www.thetwistergroup.com
Hoeffener International: www.radar-robs-rocky-mountain-scramblers.com and www.rocky-mountain-radar.com
Hilton, AG, LTD radar-detectors-direct.com
Global Trade Group, Inc.: www.ceipro.com
Electronic Retail Solutions, Inc. www.carwaves.com, www.ismellbacon.com, www.jammercity.com
Best Radar Detectors: www.bestradardetectors.net
Auto-Radar-Detectors.com
Our sources close with the investigation have advised us that the Director of the Spectrum Enforcement Division, Kathryn Bertot,  also plans on issuing additional citations to other dealers and distributors in the coming weeks.
Some of the cited dealers have removed the questionable product(s) from their websites after receiving notice. Those who fail to do so maybe fined $11,000 per day for continued violations.

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